Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 22: While pledges to intensify united struggle against traffic police’s move, the Rehdi-Fadi Workers Union-Jammu, staged protest demonstration under the banner of Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) at Bakshi Park near Govt Hospital Gandhi Nagar here today,
A large number of Rehdi-Fadi workers across the Jammu city attended the protest programme and shouted anti- administration slogans demanding restoration of their Rehdis-Fadis.
Addressing the protesting workers, CITU president, M Y Tarigami (MLA) condemned the move of traffic police-Jammu that rendering hundreds of these poor daily earners jobless. The constitution of our country provides that it is duty of Government to give job to its citizen and in case if the Government fails citizen has the right to do his any self employed job to earn livelihood for his family, he said.
The innocent poor workers were also brutally beaten by traffic police and unlawfully detained them in the lock up for one or two days without any reason, he said. Further, he added that the purchasable materials and cash was also snatch by the traffic police, they also suffered a huge loss of material and cash, and disallow them to run their self-employment for more than one month.
He urged upon the present dispensation to permit the poor workers to reinstall their Rehdi-Fadi at their existing place, pay compensation to the poor workers for the loss they suffered , and strict action against the person responsible for unlawfully detention of poor workers.
General secretary, CITU, Om Parkash and senior leader SP Kesar said that the Government agency particularly the traffic police has created havoc by forcibly evicting Rehdi-Fadis of workers who belong to down trodden section of our society and depriving these poor vendors to feed their families. They said that a memorandum of demands of Rehdi-Fadi workers was handed over to Divisional Commissioner – Jammu on 14.03.2018 but still nothing has been done in this regard.
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